Films / Programs

Centerpieces

Two outstanding films were fighting it out for Centerpiece status this Festival, so we figured, why not both? Patrik, Age 1.5 is a Swedish narrative about the tug-of-war that occurs when the new gays on the block accidentally adopt a homophobic 15-year-old. Prodigal Sons melds the dysfunctional family doc and the transdoc into an engrossing tale of “a brotherly rivalry between a man, a woman … and Orson Welles.”

Sweden
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100 min.
Goran and Sven are the new gays on the heteronormative block -- looking forward to their pending adoption of a 1.5-year-old boy. But a typographical error brings a homophobic 15-year-old juvenile delinquent to their home instead, and a subtle tug-of-war between flawed humans plays out. Text Voting Code: F129... Read more